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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for migrants , including internally displaced persons , refugees , and migrant workers .
The institute was founded in 1970, under the congressional charter of the National Academy of Sciences as the Institute of Medicine. [2]On April 28, 2015, NAS membership voted in favor of reconstituting the membership of the IOM as a new National Academy of Medicine and establishing a new division on health and medicine within the NRC that has the program activities of the IOM at its core.
The Manx name of the Isle of Man is Ellan Vannin: ellan (Manx pronunciation:), a Manx word meaning "island"; Mannin (IPA:) appears in the genitive case as Vannin (IPA:), with initial consonant mutation, hence Ellan Vannin, "Island of Mann". The short form used in English is spelled either Mann or Man.
Colin Horsley (1920–2012), New Zealand-born classical pianist but with Manx roots; Andy Kershaw, BBC Radio presenter. Rupert de Larrinaga, British Olympic skier. Cynthia Lennon, artist, writer and celebrity, ex-wife of former Beatle John Lennon, moved to the island in 1983 with her then husband Jim Christie. She and Christie lived there for ...
The Isle of Man Government (Manx: Reiltys Ellan Vannin) is the government of the Isle of Man.The formal head of the Isle of Man Government is the Lieutenant Governor, the personal representative of the Lord of Mann (currently Charles III).
The IOM Mission in Ukraine was established in 1996, when Ukraine became an observer state of IOM. In 1998, IOM launched a Counter Trafficking Program in Ukraine. In 2001, Ukraine requested membership in IOM, which was formalized with the Ukrainian Parliament's ratification in 2002.
The IOM was founded on the 1.1.1992 with the aim of investigating the fundamental physical and chemical processes in the field of non-thermal material transformation that enable important contributions to surface engineering using ions, electrons, plasmas and photons. The goal is to develop new functional and precise surfaces for future ...
IOM soybeans, an industrial designation for soybeans from the U.S. states of Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan; ISDN-oriented Modular Interface; Isle of Man, a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea; Isle of Man Airport, its IATA airport code; Jupiter (mythology), or Jupiter Optimus Maximus, king of the Roman gods